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LOSSES OF THE 

EIGHTH NEW-YORK 

HEAVY ARTILLERY 

2d brigade, 2d division, 2d CORPS. 
AUGUST 22, 1862 -JUNE 5, 1865. 



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LOSSES OF THE 

EIGHTH NEW-YORK HEAVY ARTILLERY, 

2d Brigade, 2d Division, 2d Corps. 



Compiled by William F. Fox, Lt.-Col., U. S. V., for 

" Regimental Losses in the American Civil War " : Albany Publishing 

Company, Albany, N. Y. 

[Printed as a supplejtietit to " Historical Roll of Co. D, 8ih Neiu- York Heavy A rtillery," with 
the author's permission, by James M. Hudniit, 346 Broad^uay, New- York.] 



Companies. 


Killed and Died of Wounds. 


Died of Disease, Accident, 
in Prison, etc. 


Total 
Died. 


Total 
Enrollment. 


















Officers. 


Men. 


Total. 


Officers. 


Men. 


Total. 






Field & Staff 


3 


I 


4 








4 


19 


Co. A 


I 


20 


21 




23 


23 


44 


210 


Co. B 
Co. C 
Co. D 


I 
2 
2 


55 
37 
26 


56 

39 

28 




26 

^3 
16 


26 

23 
16 


82 
62 

44 


237 

217 

202 


Co. E 
Co. F 


4 


34 
18 


34 

22 


I 


28 
30 


29 

30 


63 

52 


224 

225 


Co. G 


I 


12 


13 


I 


30 


31 


44 


209 


Co. H 




32 


32 


I 


19 


20 


52 


215 


Co. I 
Co. K 


I 
I 


21 
26 


22 

27 




25 
26 


25 
26 


47 
53 


197 
204 


Co. 1, 
Co. M 


3 


20 
40 

342 


20 1 
43 


I 


34 
18 


35 
18 


55 
61 


203 
213 


Totals . . 


19 


361 


4 


298 


302 


663 


2575 



Died in Confederate Prisons (previously included), 102. 



Battles. 

Spotsylvania, May 19, '64 . 
North Anna, May 24, '64 . 
Cold Harbor, June- 3, '64 . 
Petersburg, June 16-18 . 
Weldon Railroad, June 22 
Siege of Petersburg . . . 

Deep Bottom 

Present also at Totopotomoy ; 



K. and K. and 

M. W. Battles. M. VV. 

10 Reams' Station, Aug. 25, '64 . 24 

2 Boydton Road, Oct. 27, '64 . 13 

Hatcher's Run, Mar. 25, '65 . i 

Dabney's Mills 2 

White Oak Road 2 

On Picket, Feb. 8, '65 . . . i 

By Prison Guards 3 

Bridge; Farmville; Appomattox. 



207 
42 

34 
iG 

4 

High 



Recapitulation and Percentages. 

Killed and died of wounds . . . . 361 =: 14.0 per cent, of enrollment. 
Died from disease, accident, etc . . 302 = 11.7 

Total died, all causes 663 ■=^ 25.7 

Wounded (not mortally) 649 = 25.2 

Killed and wounded loio = 39.2 

Died and wounded (not mortally) 1312 =: 50.9 



By the kindness of the author of " Regimental Losses in the Ameri- 
can Civil War," — a book which cost immense labor, and is of absorbing 
interest, — I am enabled to supplement the "Historical Roll of Com- 
pany D " with the losses for the whole Regiment, by companies and by 
battles. Col. Fox says, in a note to the editor : 

" On the records at Washington your Regiment is credited with tlie 
following loss: killed, officers lo, enlisted men 192, — total, 202; died of 
wounds, officers 9, enlisted men 143, — total, 354; died of disease, etc., 
officers 4, enlisted men 302, — total, 306 ; total deaths, officers 23, enlisted 
men 637, — total, 660. I make more killed owing to some who were 
" wounded and missing in action." I include these with the killed : the 
War Department does not, unless official and definite information is 
received as to their fate. There were 20 officers killed; one of them 
killed before muster." 

Col. Fox's book shows that the highest percentage of deaths from 
battle in any regiment was 19.7 per cent, of total enrollment in the 2d 
Wisconsin. One hundred regiments had a mortality from battle of over 
ten per cent. Thirty-five regiments (out of over two thousand) had a 
higher percentage than our own, and three, the 7th \V. Va., 28th Mass., 
and 37th Wis., had the same percentage. One regiment only — the 
ist Maine Heavy Artillery — lost more men, and one only — the same — 
lost more in any one battle. This Regiment lost 423 men (19.2 per cent, 
of enrollment, and next to the 2d Wis.), killed or mortally wounded, and 
lost 210 at Petersburg, June 18, 1864. It also lost 147 at the Freder- 
icksburg Pike, May 19, 1864, where we were engaged for the first time. 

The statistics of losses for the Federal army during the entire war are 
as follows : 

Total number of enlistments reduced to a three years' basis . 2,320,272 

Killed (67,058) and mortally wounded (43,012) 110,070 

Wounded (not mortally) 275,175 

Total killed and wounded 385,245 

Died of disease, accidents, etc 249,458 

Total deaths 359>528 

Reducing these figures to percentages of total enrollment, and com- 
paring the casualties of our own Regiment with those of the whole army, 
we have the following : 



Killed and died of wounds .... 
Died of disease, accidents, etc. . . 

Total died, all causes 

Total wounded (not mortally) . . . 

Total killed and wounded 

Total died and wounded (not mortally 



8th N. Y. H. A. 

14.0 

II. 7 

257 
25.2 

39-2 

50-9 



All. 

4-7 
10.8 

15-5 
11.9 

16.6 



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